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- noun historical A member of a 17th-century
Protestant religious community movement founded by Jean de Labadie (1610–1674), a Frenchpietist .
Etymologies
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Examples
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He would follow her to Wiewert, and even try to join the Labadist colony.
The Flowering Genius of Maria Sibylla Merian Rowland, Ingrid D. 2009
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The Labadist community at Wiewert was not the only one to arise in the latter part of the seventeenth century.
The Flowering Genius of Maria Sibylla Merian Rowland, Ingrid D. 2009
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Merian grew up in Germany, married, had two daughters, left her husband to join a Labadist (pietist) community in West Friesland, moved to Amsterdam and, at age 52, traveled to Surinam to search for insects.
Summer Reading Suggestions from Science Peggy 2007
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Together with her daughter Dorothea, she shipped out for Suriname, not to the Labadist colony, but to the Dutch garrison city of Paramaribo.
The Flowering Genius of Maria Sibylla Merian Rowland, Ingrid D. 2009
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In 1692, her elder daughter, Johanna Helena, married a Dutch businessman, Jacob Hendrrik Herolt, a Labadist symphathizer with connections to Suriname, and in Nuremberg, Andreas Graff filed for divorce.
The Flowering Genius of Maria Sibylla Merian Rowland, Ingrid D. 2009
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Merian grew up in Germany, married, had two daughters, left her husband to join a Labadist (pietist) community in West Friesland, moved to Amsterdam and, at age 52, traveled to Surinam to search for insects.
Archive 2007-06-01 Peggy 2007
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Caspar entered a Labadist colony, moving to the chilly Frisian borderland village of Wiewert between the Netherlands and Germany to supervise its printing press.
The Flowering Genius of Maria Sibylla Merian Rowland, Ingrid D. 2009
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Another group of intrepid Labadist settlers had reached the Dutch colony of Suriname, where they set up a village in the South American rain forest.
The Flowering Genius of Maria Sibylla Merian Rowland, Ingrid D. 2009
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Labadist missionaries -- Dankers and Sluyter -- and was only recently unearthed by Henry Murphy at The Hague.
Greenwich Village Anna Alice Chapin 1900
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The publication of the manuscript secured by Mr. Murphy stimulated interest in the subject, and at various times monographic contributions appeared upon one or another phase of the Labadist settlement.
Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 Jasper Danckaerts 1898
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